Poetical Miscellanies: Consisting of Original Poems and TranslationsJ. Tonson, 1714 - 318 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... Gods , he took his flight . To falfe Eneas when ' twas given by Fate Dryd , D. To tread the Paths of Death , and view the Stygian State , Forfaken Dido was the first that stood To ftrike his Eye ; her Bofom bath'd in Blood , Fresh from ...
... Gods , he took his flight . To falfe Eneas when ' twas given by Fate Dryd , D. To tread the Paths of Death , and view the Stygian State , Forfaken Dido was the first that stood To ftrike his Eye ; her Bofom bath'd in Blood , Fresh from ...
Pàgina 16
... Gods , in Bounty , work up Storms about us , That give Mankind Occasion to exert Their hidden Strength , and throw out into Practice Virtues , which fhunthe Day , and lie conceal'd In the fmooth Seafons , and the Calms of Life . Add ...
... Gods , in Bounty , work up Storms about us , That give Mankind Occasion to exert Their hidden Strength , and throw out into Practice Virtues , which fhunthe Day , and lie conceal'd In the fmooth Seafons , and the Calms of Life . Add ...
Pàgina 17
... Gods permit th'Event of Things : Our Lives , difcolour'd with our prefent Woes , May ftill grow bright , and fmile with happier Hours . So the pure limpid Stream , when foul with Stains Of rushing Torrents , and defcending Rains , Works ...
... Gods permit th'Event of Things : Our Lives , difcolour'd with our prefent Woes , May ftill grow bright , and fmile with happier Hours . So the pure limpid Stream , when foul with Stains Of rushing Torrents , and defcending Rains , Works ...
Pàgina 20
... Gods their Shapes to Winter - Birds tranflate , But both obnoxious to their former Fate . Their conjugal Affection ftill is ty'd ; And ftill the mournful Race is multiply'd . They bill , they tread ; Alcyone , comprefs'd , Sev'n Days ...
... Gods their Shapes to Winter - Birds tranflate , But both obnoxious to their former Fate . Their conjugal Affection ftill is ty'd ; And ftill the mournful Race is multiply'd . They bill , they tread ; Alcyone , comprefs'd , Sev'n Days ...
Pàgina 24
... Gods , what Havock does Ambition make Among your Works ! Add . Cato . Ah ! curft Ambition , to thy Lores we owe All the great Ills that Mortals bear below : Curs'd by the Hind , when to the Spoil he yields His whole Year's Sweat , and ...
... Gods , what Havock does Ambition make Among your Works ! Add . Cato . Ah ! curft Ambition , to thy Lores we owe All the great Ills that Mortals bear below : Curs'd by the Hind , when to the Spoil he yields His whole Year's Sweat , and ...
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Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations: By the ... Sir Richard Steele Visualització completa - 1714 |
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Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations: By the ... Sir Richard Steele Visualització completa - 1714 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 237 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Pàgina 236 - Hell within him; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Pàgina 237 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Pàgina 149 - tis fair, yet seems to call a coach. The tuck'd-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. Here various kinds, by various fortunes led, Commence acquaintance underneath a shed. Triumphant Tories and desponding Whigs Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Pàgina 235 - O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds 130 Fearless, endangered heaven's perpetual king; And put to proof his high supremacy, Whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate...
Pàgina 358 - Clusters in the Sun, Others to tread the liquid Harvest join, The groaning Presses foam with Floods of Wine. Here are the Vines in early Flow'r descry'd, Here Grapes discolour'd on the sunny Side, And there in Autumn's richest Purple dy'd.
Pàgina 334 - Oft, as in Airy Rings they skim the Heath, The clam'rous Plovers feel the Leaden Death: Oft as the mounting Larks their Notes prepare, They fall, and leave their little Lives in Air.
Pàgina 294 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
Pàgina 10 - O'er craggy mountains, and the flowery plain ; Through brakes and thickets forc'd his way, and flew Through many a ring, where once he did pursue. In vain he oft...
Pàgina 326 - Let India boast her plants, nor envy we The weeping amber, or the balmy tree, While by our oaks the precious loads are borne, And realms commanded which those trees adorn.